Seabee Hook

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Seabee Hook
C72189s1 Ant.Map Cape Hallet.jpg
Topographic map of the Hallett Peninsula (center right) with Seabee Hook near Cape Hallett
Geographical location
Seabee Hook (Antarctica)
Seabee Hook
Coordinates 72 ° 19 ′  S , 170 ° 13 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 19 ′  S , 170 ° 13 ′  E
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast Borchgrevink coast
Waters Moubray Bay
Waters 2 Edisto Inlet
Hallett Station 1959 plan.jpg

The Seabee Hook is a flat, hook-shaped headland made of coarse volcanic ash on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 800 m west of a high and rocky ridge that forms Cape Hallett on the northern foothills of the Hallett Peninsula .

Participants in the first Operation Deep Freeze of the United States Navy took a survey from aboard the icebreaker in January 1956 USCGC Edisto ago. Named the headland is by the English phonetic shorthand of " c onstruction b attalions", the construction crews of the US Navy .

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